[2] Medschool.com Attracts Top Financial Professionals; Hiring of Renee Compton Brings Deep Industry Domain Knowledge to Strengthen Company's Business Development.

Business Editors

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000

Medschool.com, the leading e-learning company for medical students, educators and health-care professionals worldwide, today announced that it has hired Renee Compton as vice president of business development.

Compton, who leaves her position as a vice president in the health-care investment banking practice at Goldman Sachs, brings proven financial expertise and extensive contacts in the e-health space to the company.

Compton's hire comes on the heels of Medschool.com's announcement on Thursday, Feb. 24, that the company secured an additional round of funding, bringing the total to-date to $12 million. The secured round comes from individual and institutional investors from medical publishing, e-health, biotechnology and telecommunications. This represents both a significant injection of capital as well as access to an influential brain trust for the company.

Select investors include Dr. Richard C. Atkinson, president of the University of California system; Eric Zachs, general partner of Bantry Bay Ventures; and Dr. Eugene Seymour, a physician entrepreneur who holds nine U.S. patents in the medical diagnostic field.

Compton will further solidify the existing management team, who, along with an elite board of advisors and industry-savvy financial backers, will create the premier e-learning platform for health care. Compton will develop and implement corporate strategy, build strategic partnerships and pursue alliances and acquisitions for Medschool.com.

"Renee's addition to the company at such a crucial stage is a tremendous validation of our business model, and will bring great momentum to the company," said Dr. Vikas Bhushan, CEO of Medschool.com. "The quality of education in health care is paramount, and our platform will deliver universal access to top-notch medical education. Medschool.com's vision and existing team is attracting leading professionals from both the financial and health-care industries."

Prior to joining Medschool.com, Compton provided leadership at Goldman Sachs in new business development and transaction execution in both health-care information technology and Internet practices. Some of her most recent achievements involve structuring successful IPOs for AllScripts and PlanetRx.com, and negotiating McKesson HBOC's acquisition of Abaton.com.

"I believe Medschool.com is poised to become the leading site for all medical education needs," said Compton. "I'm excited to join them at a time when I can make a significant impact on the direction and future of the company."

Compton began her career in investment banking at Cowen & Co., in San Francisco, where she participated in numerous transactions including IPOs, secondary offerings and private placements for emerging growth health care and technology companies.

Compton received her bachelor of arts degree in economics from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and her MBA in finance from Columbia Business School.

Select Medschool.com Investors Include:

-- Dr. Richard C. Atkinson -- Dr. Atkinson is the current president of the
University of California system. He has also served as Chancellor of the
University of California, San Diego and director of the National Science
Foundation. Prior to that, he was a member of the faculty at Stanford
University.

-- Dr. Eugene Seymour -- Dr. Seymour is a physician entrepreneur who holds nine
U.S. patents in the medical diagnostic field and is the founder of a medical
diagnostics company. He has practiced medicine, performed clinical research,
and taught at both the UCLA School of Medicine and the USC School of
Gerontology.

-- Eric Zachs -- Zachs is the general partner of Bantry Bay Ventures, a private
venture capital firm, and serves on Medschool.com's board of directors. Zachs
founded and is co-chairman of ZipLink (Nasdaq:ZIPL). ZipLink is a national
Internet backbone provider of wholesale access solutions for Internet
appliances worldwide.

-- The Audax Group -- a private investment group including former partners at
Bain Capital.

-- Blackwell Science Ltd. -- a top-five global medical publisher based in
Oxford, United Kingdom.

-- Cornerstone Equities LLC -- a private Colorado-based venture capital firm
that invests in seed, early and growth stage companies.

About Medschool.com

Medschool.com (www.medschool.com) is a content-rich e-learning health-care hub and virtual community offering access to the highest quality medical education to students, educators, physicians, allied health professionals and sophisticated consumers. The company is working with key academic advisors at leading institutions, including Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, and U.C. San Francisco.

Medschool.com has assembled a team of world-renowned lecturers in cooperation with student and professional organizations to provide an integrated learning and community platform that augments the current medical educational system and addresses critical needs in health-care education. The company has grown from three to 60 employees over a nine-month period, and has offices in Santa Monica and Oxford, U.K.